"Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever."
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
There were helicopters circling the sky, and fully-equipped artillery vehicles were left and right. People who flooded the streets to Camp Crame in Quezon City stared at heavily-armed men with fear and hope; that was the milieu when a woman, like many others, was rushed to an emergency room for a C-section.
Outside the delivery room of a hospital, a father was not only thinking of possible baby names for his daughter, but he was also planning how to salvage his wife and newborn child to safety in case things go out of hand.
An air of anxiety filled the hearts of a father and a mother. They were uncertain, like many other parents of those called EDSA babies, if their child would have a country to know, a country to love.
"If only someone of a great mind and chaste heart would rise above the rest lusting for power," they thought.
Reds and yellows collided, and in that fleeting moment, they walked as one grieving and fighting army. They grieved the fall of what was once a great nation, and they fought for the hope of its resurrection. Those in power called in insurrection; I call it liberation.
A rigged election, unexplained wealth and countless of human rights violations after, another woman underwent a different kind of C-section: C-H-A-N-G-E. She stripped down her priced anonymity and gleamed with a desire to serve who she leads.
She, who reluctantly took a nation into her bosoms...,
She, who braved the most challenging of times in any leadership...,
She is Maria Corazon "Cory" C. Aquino.
Without her, a daughter of one father and one mother would not have been able to live in democracy, to know a country and to love one.
©Grace Ramos
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